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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
separable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The culture of a people is not separable from its physical surroundings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But what if form is not separable from content?
▪ He will recognize that there are large separable strategic subsystems.
▪ Inputs must be binary only, or linearly separable, or orthogonal.
▪ Other species seem to be separable into geographical races based on their morphological features.
▪ Rather, they acknowledge two distinct and separable codes.
▪ Thus far Plato and Aristotle attribute similar statements to the Orphics: body and soul are separable.
▪ When seen in the context of the Lincoln glass this is a third separable compositional group of Pain de Venise glass.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Separable

Separable \Sep"a*ra*ble\, a. [L. separabilis: cf. F. s['e]parable.] Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided; as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exist. -- Sep"a*ra*ble*ness, n. -- Sep"a*ra*bly, adv.

Trials permit me not to doubt of the separableness of a yellow tincture from gold.
--Boyle.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
separable

late 14c., from Latin separabilis, from separare (see separate (v.)). Related: Separability.

Wiktionary
separable

a. 1 Able to be separated. 2 (context analysis English) Of a topological space, having a countable dense subset.

WordNet
separable

adj. capable of being divided or dissociated; "often drugs and crime are not dissociable"; "the siamese twins were not considered seperable"; "a song...never conceived of as severable from the melody"; [syn: dissociable, severable]

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Usage examples of "separable".

They are not separable into maltose and dextrin by any of the ordinary means, but exhibit the properties of mixtures of these substances.

If the reference is not to the Form actually present, but to Form as a thing existing apart from all formed objects, it is hard to see how such an entity has found its way into body, and at any rate this makes the soul separable.

Inulin is allied to starch, and its crystallized camphor is separable into true helenin, and alantin camphor.

Of those listed above, acetonitrile is preferred since it is non-reactive and mobile at the temperature used, and is relatively volatile and hence readily separable from the reaction mixture by evaporation in vacuum.

If the reference is not to the Form actually present, but to Form as a thing existing apart from all formed objects, it is hard to see how such an entity has found its way into body, and at any rate this makes the soul separable.

If the numbers are logically separable from the objects, that is no reason why we should not think of them as sharing the same differentiae.

They seemed hardly separable from the feverish sweetness of certain evenings in Antioch, from the excited stir of mornings in Rome, from the famous names which they bore, or from that luxury amid which their last secret was to show themselves nude, but never without ornament.

With this discovery Kunll S Suag gave to man what man should have known thousands of years before The error in all the Poly-mathematical Theory has been housed m the assumption that time is an independent variable The old, honored Theory of Relativity, as well as Heisenberg's indeterminacy principle was laid to rest with this one moment of clarity The concept that velocity in curvilinear motion is a function of an independent time variable was the error Light and time were not separable On the contrary there was a dependency on the variations of each quantity They are dependent jointly distributed hypervanables, to be treated with a new discrete space multidirecteti filternet limit In such a model no longer does viewing alter the nature of the viewed if one allows for the dependent shift in tune Moreover, the inability to travel at overhght velocities is merely an apparent effect of the observa .

It is quite an erroneous notion that only those Fungi are good to eat which grow in open places, and also that if the skin of the cap cannot be peeled off, as in the common Mushroom, a fungus is unfit for food, for many good species grow in woods (though comparatively few of these actually grow on trees), and in many excellent species which are constantly eaten there is no separable cuticle, whereas in numerous deadly species, it is as readily peeled off as in the Mushroom.

With this discovery Kunll S Suag gave to man what man should have known thousands of years before The error in all the Poly-mathematical Theory has been housed m the assumption that time is an independent variable The old, honored Theory of Relativity, as well as Heisenberg's indeterminacy principle was laid to rest with this one moment of clarity The concept that velocity in curvilinear motion is a function of an independent time variable was the error Light and time were not separable On the contrary there was a dependency on the variations of each quantity They are dependent jointly distributed hypervanables, to be treated with a new discrete space multidirecteti filternet limit In such a model no longer does viewing alter .

Wherever a crack or chink hinted at separable parts, Maia noticed burnished edges where someone must have tried prying away, probably with wedges or crowbars, and succeeded only in rubbing off a layer of tarnish.

Green seeming to be the first supervenient, or above-ground complexion of Vegetables, separable in many upon ligature or inhumation, as Succory, Endive, Artichoaks, and which is also lost upon fading in the Autumn.